SCP Computers - Web Design & Development

SCP Computers can unlock the true potential of the Internet and get your corporate image noticed via effective web design and web development.

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Web Design

Your company web site can provide a relatively inexpensive means of both promoting your products and delivering an improved level of service to your
customers or potential customers.

All of our web designs are built to individual customer's requirements which means the web site you get will fit in with your corporate image.

Customers can 'see' the product in more detail than in a printed form.

It is much easier and cheaper to change your 'on-line brochure' than a printed catalogue.

You can reduce the frequency of customers' telephone requests for assistance you receive by placing information such as 'product manuals' or 'common problems and solutions' on-line for the customer's easy access.

And perhaps best of all, you can accept customer orders on-line including processing their credit card details.

Once you have paid for your site you own it, so if at some point in the future you wish for another company to add
additional content or make some changes we will supply you with all of the code we used to build your site.
When looking for a web design company always ask them about ownership of the website upon completion, we have had first hand experience of some companies being held to ransom or totally
refused access to the content of their websites when they wish to move it or have another party make changes to it.

Not only do we offer a web design service we will also manage the web hosting and domain renewals for you often cutting the amount you pay.

The Web Design Process

Understanding Your Requirements & Expectations
The first step of the web design process is understanding your requirements, what you want your web site to do, how you want your web site to look and what
content you want in the design of your web site. We won't baffle you with web design jargon, we will explain to you in plain English some of the different concepts and the processes involved.

By getting together with you the customer and looking at any brochures, logos, and printed material you may have. This will give us the colour scheme for the web design and the images
to use for the top or side banners. We will ask you about what your business does and the services you provide to your customers. From this we can discuss ideas for the content of
the web site and agree on the number of web pages and their titles. We will also be able to provide a hosting package to meet the requirements and demands of your web site.

The Cost
We now have a good idea of what you want from your web site and how you want it to look and so are in a good position to quote you a price. Once the price has been agreed we
will stick to it and if the web design takes us less time than we initially expected we will reduce the price accordingly. We do not ask for the full amount up front but we do usually request a
deposit, usually 50%, with the balance being paid upon acceptance of the site by you.

The Initial Design
We are now ready to create an individual template for the design of your web site. Whilst we are creating this we will ask you to produce the wording you want on each
page and to think of some key phrases to catch the attention of the search engines and so bring customers to your web site.

Once the initial web design has been completed we will provide you with a link so you can look at the initial design and ask for your feedback. At this point we will make all the tweaks until you are completely happy.

The Web Development Process

Once you are happy with the web design and layout we will then move on to the web development stage. We have the skills in house for developing websites and web apps using:

Asp.Net and c#

PHP

MVC with Razor

HTML 5

CSS

MySql Databases

Sql Server Databases

Building Your Web Site
You are now happy with web design and should have the wording and any images you want incorporated into the web design. We have access to millions of images so don't
worry if you do not have any. We now create each individual page and build the links, writing code so the pages have the look and feel that matches the design.

If your web design requires the use of a database we write all the code to access this and display the results. We will also write the code for any special functionality you have requested. SCP Computers have expereince in wrting custom checkouts using PayPal and Sage Pay.

Each time a section of the web has been completed we will load it up to the link we gave you earlier so you can keep an eye on the progress and provide us with feedback and details of any changes you want.

Testing & Acceptance
Once the web site is fully functional and tested by us we will ask you to go through the complete site to ensure you are happy with the look and feel of your web site. It is a good idea at this point to involve
colleagues, friends and family to have a look at your site and get their feedback on the web design and functionality. We now make any final changes and make the site live.

Website SEO

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is an important part of developing any web site, during the development stage every effort is made to ensure the website conforms to SEO best practices.
We will run your web through SEO analysis tools to ensure we have not missed anything and make adjustments as required.

We now create a site map and add code that helps the search engines index your site and we submit it to the major search engines like Google and Bing for inclusion. Don't expect results straight away,
this process can take up to 8 weeks. Will you be number 1 on the search engines for your key phrases? We don't know and cannot make any guarantees, nor can anyone else.
We strongly suggest reading the Google article on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) before employing the service of any SEO company (Click here). We will keep an eye on how your site is performing and will make suggestions on how we can improve things for you.

Do We Build WordPress Sites?

WordPress is a commonly used content management system (CMS) which a lot of web design companies use to create web sites for their customers (in many cases it is all they can do). In answer to the question, yes we can create WordPress sites
when asked, it's not our preferred way of creating web sites owing to the security and performance issues surrounding WordPress sites. In our experience the customers who requested WordPress sites from us never make any changes to the sites themselves
(which is the whole point of having a CMS site), and still ask us to make the changes.
If you are using another company to create your website always ask them if the site is going to be built using a content management system, and if so which one.